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I've heard from a Russian mate that Eastern European gangsters regard Ireland as a bit of a soft touch, unarmed cops, light sentencing etc. Although I would have thought that the Gardai would be able for them being used to dealing with our home grown gangsters and various flavours of paramilitary who are just as bad if not worse.

I'm fairly sure that they can be deported even though they are EU citizens. A big gang of Slovakian gypsies got booted out a year or two ago afair. I can see the point of immigrants to work in places like IT firms and hospitals (the health service would collapse without them), most of whom seem to came from outside the EU incidently. Can't see why we need to import people to sell the Big Issue though.